-a human islet isolation, research, distribution, and biobanking facility located in a state-of-the art laboratory on the 5th floor of the Alberta Diabetes Institute.

-our goal is to isolate, bank, and distribute human islets specifically for research purposes from donor pancreas that would not otherwise be used in clinical transplantation.

-our research-specific focus allows the use of organs from donors with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), as well as other non-standard donors so that researchers can better understand the processes contributing to islet health and dysfunction.

What’s Available

-we isolate and distribute human islets from a range of donor types (breakdown shown at right) to academic laboratories for the study of diabetes.

-we bank functional islets by cryopreservation, for future research and use with emerging technologies to facilitate diabetes research.

-paraffin-embedded biopsies, and functional data, are available for all of the donors.